A Wedding

A Wedding is a 1978 black comedy directed by Robert Altman, starring Carol Burnett, Lillian Gish, Geraldine Chaplin, Vittorio Gassman, Mia Farrow, Lauren Hutton, Craig Richard Nelson,Pam Dawber, Desi Arnaz, Jr., Paul Dooley, Dennis Christopher, and Howard Duff. The dialogue is humorous, and the story is told in the trademark Altman style, with multiple plots and overlapping dialogue.

The stories unfold in a single day during a lavish wedding that merges a middle-class Southern family with a wealthy one that has connections to organized crime. Capped with a somewhat tragic ending, the film concludes with a cover version of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a Wire." Cohen's music set the tone for Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Facts

• It was adapted into an opera in 2004, also called A Wedding.
• The house featured in the film is the current residence of singer Richard Marx, and his wife, actress Cynthia Rhodes.
• This is the first time that actors Paul Dooley and Dennis Christopher played father and son in a film, as Liam and Hughie Brenner, respectively. They will appear together again in Breaking Away (1979), as Raymond and Dave Stoller, and in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent TV episode Cherry Red (2003), as Stan and Roger Coffman.

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